Tag: Virtue
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Justice in Action, with Voice of Islam UK
This past Tuesday, I had the pleasure to appearing on the Breakfast Show, a live radio programme of the Voice of Islam. An initiative of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim community, the Breakfast Show “provides unique and fresh perspectives around current affairs and contemporary topics through the lens of Islam, evoking discussion from diverse viewpoints combined…
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The Oxford Gen Z Summit
Exciting things are on the horizon. The Gen Z Summit is fast approaching, and I’m thrilled to share a sneak peek of what’s in store. This event will bring together close to twenty of our study’s participatory researchers (young people, aged 18-27) to engage with our data and play a meaningful role in their interpretation.…
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11th Annual European Compliance & Ethics Institute
Stepping in for a friend, I’ll be speaking at the 11th Annual European Compliance & Ethics Institute on 20th March 2023 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. My session, entitled ‘Ethics in the workplace’ will: The session will feature plenty of peer-learning (the attendees will be the real experts in the room!), mixed in with ethical insights from…
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Religious Liberty and Corporate Metaphysics
By Edward A. David McDonald Postdoctoral Fellow in Christian Ethics and Public Life, University of Oxford 23 February 2023, Recollection Lecture, Pusey House, Oxford Introduction Thank you to the Centre for Theology, Law, and Culture for the kind invitation to speak today, ahead of a symposium dedicated to the topic of corporate persons. The aim…
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Updates from the Conference Circuit
It’s that time of year: summer conferences! Since May, I’ve presented at four conferences. The first two focused on law and religion, the second two on virtue in business and in general. I am now preparing for three more conferences, which will round out not just the summer but the 2021/22 academic year as well.…
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Article: Truth and Christian Ethics
Studies in Christian Ethics, the journal of the Society for the Study of Christian Ethics, has just published a short article I wrote in response to Professor Mark Wynn’s essay, entitled ‘Truth and Christian Ethics: a Narratival Perspective’. Professor Wynn and I delivered these papers at the Society’s 2021 annual conference. Below, I have copied…
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Lecture: Religious institutionalism at Oxford’s University Church
I recently spoke to the Graduate Theological Society at the University of Oxford about the moral foundations of religious institutionalism (or church autonomy doctrine) in the United States. James Hooks, a DPhil student, led the discussion. We spoke around the following theses: A predominate view of religious institutionalism tends to reduce the value of houses…
Edward A. David 